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May.12.2012
There is a slight mention at the end of this press release that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has an "...extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers." Alas, we poor (doubly so) authors.
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Dec.06.2011
One Saturday afternoon when I was maybe five or six, my Dad was reading the paper and I was watching some grim Dickens-ish movie on little our black and white GE console. A tattered, beaten down family was sent to a huge dark, foreboding end-of-the-line-for-you Debtors Prison. Under the big white...
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Oct.22.2011
Today I am thinking about PROMISES.
A promise is a debt. But it doesn't necessarily have to be. I can avoid making it so. When I say I will do something I'd better do it otherwise my credibility will be diminished or even lost completely. However, if there is an unforeseen circumstance that hinders...
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Jul.28.2011
An open letter to congress from an irate citizen...
To continue making our ballooning national debt a partisan issue is not only abdicating your fundamental responsibility to the citizens of this nation, but a foolhardy and cavalier insult to the world at large. Get busy, get your heads together,...
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Mar.13.2011
Preview excerpt from THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS, Book Two of the Berkeley Trilogy, 1799 -1811 (to be published 2013)
Back in the summer of 1799, Jane Price had swept out of Cranford House and the Berkeleys’ lives in high dudgeon. Though a humble governess to the younger children, she...
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Jan.14.2011
Today's announcement (January 14, 2011) that Mrs Daisy Berkeley, wife of Mrs Charles Berkeley, Director of Berkeley Castle, has given birth to a daughter, has me wavering between goosebumps and tears. They are naming her Mary.
This will be the first Mary to live there since...
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Aug.18.2010
Paradoxically, the Dowager, whose opinion Berkeley had taught Mary to fear, turned out to be her advocate She was a dissipated beauty with a taste for effete men, perhaps because...
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Feb.17.2010
Thank goodness we have George Papandreou and his government in leadership positions as we solve the problems necessary to once again become solvent.
The transparency that PM Papandreou's leadership demands is exactly what any country needs to work out this...
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Dec.10.2009
When you lose everything it might seem that loss is all that’s left to identify with. Loss is a situation not a state of mind. Just like you weren’t what you had, you aren’t what you lost. Nor are you what you owe. Indenture isn’t identity. A financial obligation does not oblige you to...
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Sep.21.2009
September 21
SELF-SEEKING IS A DEBIT
Trying to get credit for everything I do has run me into debt in my anonymity account, which draws directly from my humility bank. I cannot expend my resources seeking acknowledgement and expect to retain much dignity or class. How can I build within...
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